NBA Digest (22nd March.2013)

21 and continues Heat beat this time Bucks 107-94 in away game and made the series 21. I was thinking that Bucks will beat Heat. I was wrong. (15.03.2013)

OK now 22. Heat doesn't stop. Their next victim was Raptors. They beat Raptors with 108-91 in the away game. Now they tie the longest winning streak with Rockets in the second place. Celtics ended the series of Rockets in 2008. Heat's next game is against Celtics. We will see if Celtics will end another series. An interesting coincidence. (17.03.2013)

Counting and 23. Heat beat Celtics after a very very hard game with 105-103. Now they are in the 2nd place in consecutive winning series. So far good. But breaking the consecutive winning record is a tough one. Lakers holds this record with 32 consecutive wins in 1971-72 season. The game in the end of March against Spurs is Heat's 31st game. If this streak will last until the end of March they also will have beat Spurs to beat the record. Hey! Could somebody stop Heat? (18.03.2013)

The winning series of Nuggets which is under the shadow of Heat'a series goes on. Nuggets beat Bulls after a very contentious OT away game with 119-118 and got their 12th consecutive win. Heat in the East, Nuggets in the West. We'll see when these streaks will come an end. (18.03.2013)

Nuggets got their 13 consecutive win last night and broke their franchise winning streak record. But more important case is not their 13th consecutive win rather the win against the 2nd strong champion candidate Oklahoma City Thunder in an away game. They won the game 114-104. I think that a very excited playoff is waiting for us. (19.03.2013)

And 24! Heat won the game against Cavaliers 98-95 and moved the series one step further coming from 27 point deficit. LeBron James played with 25 points 12 rebounds and 10 assists and achieved a triple-double. An interesting note from the game: The game began with a 35 minutes delay because of the ceiling leak driping of Quciken Loans Arena. (20.03.2013)

The series go on Nuggets made it 14. They beat 76ers 101-100 at home after an incredible comeback. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go9LwAJjgG4

NBA Digest (15th March 2013)

Heat goes on the series. Heat beat 76ers at home with 102-93 and made it 17 wins in a raw. (08.03.2013)

Nets defeat Wizards with 95-78. D. Williams scored 42 points. But much more interesting thing is Williams' 3-point shots. He made 11 3-points during the game (11/16). He made 9 3-points in the first which is the new NBA record: Most 3-points made in a half. The NBA record most 3-points made in a game is 12 which was achieved by two players: Kobe Bryant (7th January 2003 - LAL) and Donyell Marshall (13th March 2005 - TOR) (09.03.2013)

Heat says: "Not enough! Go on!" Heat defeat Pacers at home with 105-91 and increased the series to 18. (10.03.2013)

Dunk of the year candidate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTkN2q6sUUk&feature=youtu.be He is a left handed man but dunks this time with his right hand. Salute man! (10.03.2013)


Heat made it 19. They defeat Hawks at homw with 98-81. The series goes on. There were only 2 teams in NBA who had 19 consecutive wins. Heat became the 3rd.  (12.03.2013)

20!!! Heat beat 76ers after a tough away game with 98-94 and became one of the 3 teams who have 20 consecutivd wins. End of the series is close. Bucks will end the Heat's series I think. (13.03.2013)

Heat's 20 wins in a raw overshadowed Nuggets' 10 wins in a raw. Nuggets are in the peak of their performance. They beat at home pretentious Knicks with 117-94. We will see who will stop them. (13.03.2013)

NBA Winning Streaks

The longest winning streak in NBA history belongs to Lakers with 33 consecutive wins in 1971-72 season. The best winning percentage belongs to Chicago Bulls with 72 wins and 10 losses in 1995-96 season. But Bulls couldn't achieved more than 18 consecutive wins in that season. Below is the first 10 rank of consecutive wins in NBA:

A summary of the winning records is below:

Takım	Seri Başlangıcı	Seri Sonu	Galibiyet Sayısı
Los Angeles Lakers	Nov. 5, 1971	Jan. 7, 1972	33
Houston Rockets	Jan. 29, 2008	March 16, 2008	22
Miami Heat	Feb. 3, 2013	-- current --	20
Washington Capitols	March 13, 1948	Dec. 4, 1948	20*
Milwaukee Bucks	Feb. 6, 1971	March 8, 1971	20
Los Angeles Lakers	Feb. 4, 2000	March 13, 2000	19
Boston Celtics	Nov. 15, 2008	Dec. 23, 2008	19
Rochester Royals	Feb. 17, 1950	Nov. 11, 1950	18*
Philadelphia 76ers	March 3, 1966	Nov. 4, 1966	18*
New York Knicks	Oct. 24, 1969	Nov. 28, 1969	18
Boston Celtics	Feb. 24, 1982	March 26, 1982	18
Chicago Bulls	Dec. 29, 1995	Feb. 2, 1996	18
Washington Capitols	Nov. 16, 1946	Dec. 30, 1946	17
Boston Celtics	Nov. 28, 1959	Dec. 30, 1959	17
San Antonio Spurs	Feb. 29, 1996	March 31, 1996	17
Phoenix Suns	Dec. 29, 2006	Jan. 28, 2007	17
Dallas Mavericks	Jan. 27, 2007	March 11, 2007	17
Los Angeles Clippers	Nov. 28, 2012	Dec. 30, 2012	17

NBA Digest (8th March 2013)

Bulls defeat 76ers at home with 98-83. Joakim Noah of Bulls made a triple-double with 23 points, 21 rebounds and 11 blocks. Noah is 5th player in the last 25 seasons who played at least with 20 points, 20 rebounds and 10 blocks. (28.02.2013)

Score rank of the week: 1)Kevin Durant (OKC): 28,6 2)Carmelo Anthony (NYK): 28,5 3)LeBron James (MIA): 27,3 4)Kobe Bryant (LAL): 27,2 5)James Harden (HOU): 26,4 (28.02.2013)

Rebound rank of the week: 1)Dwight Howard (LAL): 11,9 2)Zach Randolph (MEM): 11,7 3)Ömer Aşık (HOU): 11,6 4)Joakim Noah (CHI): 11,43 5)Tyson Chandler (NYK): 11,39 (01.03.2013)

Turkish national basketball player Enes Kanter made the expected eruption against Charlotte Bobcats where Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap couldn't play because of their injuries. He showed a real 3rd pick performance during the game finally and made 23 points and grabbed 22 rebounds. Enes did a dboule double in the 1st quarter with 12 points and 12 rebounds. We have been expecting such performances from him since the start of the season. I hope that we will see similar and better performnaces from him. Jazz won the game with 98-68. 68 points was the least score of Bobcats in this season. (28.02.2013)

Heat beat Grizzlies at home with 98-91 and increased the winning series to 13. (01.03.2013)

Heat beat! The Heat series goes on. Heat beat also Knicks last night in New York with 99-93 and made it 14 wins in a row. 14 consecutive wins is the tie of Heat's consecutive win record. Last time Heat got 14 consecutive wins Wade was league's scoring leader with 24,1 ppg and Shaq was the 2nd in scoring with 22,9 ppg. (What a statistic, huh? Surpassed even me.) (03.03.2013)

Heat won the game against Timberwolves as expected with 97-81 got thier 15th win in a row and broke their consecutive winning record. I think they will easily increase it to 17. Maybe the game on 10th March against Pacers will be a bit tough for them. (04.03.2013)

Thunder is on the peak of theis performance. They beat Lakers at home with 122-105. Well the result is quite normal but one thing is not: They turned over only TWO times during the whole game. Unbelievable! So they tie the NBA record of least turn overs per game. Lakes on the contrary did 16 turnovers. (05.03.2013)


Kevin Garnett of Celtics became the 10th player in NBA all time rebounds list after the game against Pacers. He passed Wes Unseld who grabbed 13,769 rebounds. Celtics won the game 83-81. (06.03.2013)

Heat beat Magic at home 97-96 and got 15th consecutive win against Magic. Also they got their 16th wins in a raw this season. (06.03.2013)


Point per game ranking after the week is as follows: 1)Kevin Durant (OKC): 28,7 2)Carmelo Anthony (NYK): 28,2 3)Kobe Bryant (LAL): 27,6 4)LeBron James (MIA): 27,0 5)James Harden (HOU): 26,3


Rebounds per game after the week is as follows:: 1)Dwight Howard (LAL): 12,1 2)Ömer Aşık (HOU): 11,7 3)Zach Randolph (MEM): 11,6 4)Joakim Noah (CHI): 11,4 5)Nikola Vucevid (ORL): 11,4

NBA Digest (01.03.2013)

Spurs ruined Clippers in Los Angeles with 116-90. So Spurs got their 16th win in the last 17 games. This game was important because it is a possbile Western Conference Semi Final match. (21.02.2013)

Heat beat 76ers with 114-90 in away game getting their 10th consecutive win. LeBron James played achieved a triple-double with 16 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds. Heat's last 10 games includes strong teams: Rockets, Clippers, Lakers, Thunder (away), Hawks (away), Bulls (away). This performance is remarkable as we are not far from the playoffs. (23.02.2013)

Kobe continues to break the records. Kobe passes 31,000 points during the game against Mavericks where Lakers beat Mavericks with 103-99. Kobe became the 5th player in NBA who passed 31,000 points. (He finished the game eith 31,027 points.) Monstrous Wilt Chamberlain is 4th with 31,419 points in NBA. Unless a misfortune will happen Kobe will pass Chamberlain this season. (24.02.2013)

Let's remember all time scoring leaders in NBA: 1. Kareem Abduljabbar: 38,387 2. Karl Malone: 36,928 3. Michael Jordan: 32,292 4. Wilt Chamberlain: 31,419 5. Kobe Bryant: 31,027 For the blog about this topic: http://maksatsporolsun.blogspot.com/2012/02/nbade-tum-zamanlarda-en-cok-say-atan.html (24.02.2013)

Heat beat Cavaliers with 109-105 at home and got their 11th consecutive win. (24.02.2013)

Heat beat Kings with 141-129 at home after 2OT and got their 12th consecutive win. Heat got only one loss in February which was against Pacers of which performance is great nowadays. Heat closed February with 12 wins and 1 loss. LeBron played with 40 points and 16 assists. There were only three players in NBA history who played at least with 40 points and 16 assists: Kevin Johnson (42 points, 16 assists), Tim Hardaway (41 points, 18 assists) and  Isiah Thomas (40 points,17 assists) LeBron James is the number 1 candidate to break all of the records in NBA. LeBron broke also his assist record with 16 assists after this game. (26.02.2013)

You gotta watch this pregame dunk of LeBron James which you can only -maybe- see in slam dunk contests: http://www.nba.com/socialvideo/index.html?s=89035 (26.02.2013)

Bucks won the game against Rockets in Houston with 110-107 where two Turkish national players played against each other.  Ömer Aşık of Rockets played with 16 points and 22 rebounds made another double-double this season. And broke his career rebound record. Ersan Ilyasova of Bucks played with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Man of the match was Monta Ellis with no doubt. He beat the buzzer with an unbelievable three point shot. http://www.nba.com/bucks/videogames/rockets/2013/02/27/0021200856-mil-hou-play4.nba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fByU-H8qRhE

Warriors lost the game against Knicks with 109-105 in New York City Stephen Curry of Warriors played with 54 points. But his performance was not enough to win the game. (27.02.2013)

Lakers beat Timberwolves at home with 116-94. This was Lakers' 21st straight win against Timberwolves. This is the longest active streak of any team over another in NBA. (28.02.2013)